Rebecca Solnit
San Francisco writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twelve books, most recently A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. The book draws heavily on the work of the disaster sociologists. In the course of her research on Hurricane Katrina she launched A.C. Thompson's award-winning investigation of vigilante violence during the storm. Other books authored by Solnit include Storming the Gates of Paradise; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Ar*; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). She is also serves a contributing editor to Harper's and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com.